Affluence and Civil Rights

Election of 1948

Truman 49.55%, 303 EV

  • aso enters the 1952 election

    • didn’t do so well in that one

  • berlin airift was successful

    • improved anti-communist credit

  • obivously won but was a clsoer tie

    • was so close that newspapers were writing stories for if either one won. most really thought that Truman was going to lose.

  • was the dem cand. and was very aggressive and ambitious with campaigning despite lack of support from other candidates

  • ‘do nothing congress”

  • rode RR cars and do speeches in small atowns across the US

    • “whistle stop campaigning”

  • “give em Hell Harry

Tom Dewey 45.07% 189 EV

  • republican candidate

  • gov of NY

  • agreed with

  • increased SS stuff and education aid

  • was moderate

  • personality also led to his loss, not very charming

    • seemed harsh, whistle stop was seen as an insult, but he used the term

Thurmond 2.41% 39 EV

  • dixiecrats (states right democrat party)

  • only on the ballot in 17 states

Wallace 2.37% 0 EV

  • progressive party

  • was on the ballot in 45 states

Dem National COnvection of 1948

  • americans for democratic action

    • anti-communist liberals

      • huvert humphrey…civil rights

    • wanted to keep henry wallace from getting elected

    • wanted dwight eisenhower

THings Republican COngress did before 1948

taft-hartely

  • sympathy strikes,

trimmed wartime regulations

  • no office of price something 17 min mark or before that

NSA

  • CIA NSC

Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

    helped guide international affairs

budget was balanced pretty well

Truman

  • tried to get more jobs to enter the social security

  • eduation aid

  • national healthcare

  • anti-lynching legislation and civil rights laws

the fair deal

  • housing-bill for low-income families 810 k uinits

  • 10 million more jobs covered in social security

he wanted more to be passed, but this is what happened

housing industry began to boom in the US

Changes in US after the war

  • 14% increase in pop. in 1940s

    • 400% inc. in popo in west

    • 67% inc. in midwest

    • 175% in. in south

    • 53.8% in northeasr

  • biggest boom was 19% in 50s, babyboomers

  • income inequality was lowest it has ever been in the US

Affluent Society

Dave Brubeck Quartet

  • Eugene M

  • Paul Desmond

THe fifties

Jazz Music

  • miles

Abstract expressionism

social criticism

  • the lonely crowd

  • critique of corporate america

  • on the road Jack K

Growth of the suburbs

  • wnated open area with trees

  • not super rural

  • not as loud as city

  • More people joined churches

    • mothers more active in raising children

  • schools needing to adapt and grow and change to

  • 1939 financial incentives from congress

    • low down payments for homes

    • deduct mortgage interest

  • government began to ensure 30 year loans

  • National federal mortgage association

Middle Class post-war houses